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Adhesive Small Bowel Obstruction and the six w’s: Who, How, Why, When, What, and Where to diagnose and operate?

Scandinavian Journal of Surgery, 2021
Background and Aims: Approximately 75% of patients admitted with small bowel obstruction have intra-abdominal adhesions as their cause (adhesive small bowel obstruction).
M. Podda, M. Khan, S. di Saverio
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Phytobezoar: A Rare Cause of Small Bowel Obstruction [PDF]

Journal of Clinical and Diagnostic Research, 2013
Phytobezoar is an unusual cause of small bowel obstruction. It accounts for about 0.4%-4% of all mechanical bowel obstruction. However, the symptoms are not very different from those caused by usual aetiologies of small bowel obstruction.
Anupama Pujar K., Sreekar Pai A., Bharati Hiremath V.   +2 more
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Successful Vaginal Delivery during Acute Small Bowel Obstruction: A Case Report and Review of the Literature

Case Reports in Obstetrics and Gynecology, 2021
Small bowel obstruction during pregnancy is rare and can be detrimental to both mother and fetus. In most cases, management eventually involves surgical intervention.
Angela J. Stephens, Stephen M. Wagner, Beth L. Pineles, Eleazar E. Soto   +3 more
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Small bowel obstruction [PDF]

Clinical Case Reports, 2013
Key Clinical MessageGallstone ileus is a rare complication of cholelithiasis, but an established cause of mechanical small bowel obstruction in elderly patients. It is associated with high morbidity and mortality as most patients are elderly with multiple comorbidities. Surgery of choice is enterolithotomy.
Saurabh, Shireesh, Singh, Namrata
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Outcomes of obstructed abdominal wall hernia: results from the UK national small bowel obstruction audit

BJS Open, 2020
Background Abdominal wall hernia is a common surgical condition. Patients may present in an emergency with bowel obstruction, incarceration or strangulation.
National Audit of Small Bowel Obstruction Steering Group and National Audit of Small Bowel Obstruction Collaborators, NASBO Steering Group, NASBO Collaborators, West Midlands Research Collaborative   +3 more
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Sigmoid carcinoma with sigmoid-rectal intussusception presenting as rectal prolapse and large bowel obstruction in the ED

The Egyptian Journal of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, 2021
Background Intestinal obstruction is a surgical emergency with most cases being small bowel obstruction. Large bowel obstruction is comparatively uncommon and colonic malignancies are a usual cause.
Pallabi Mazumdar, Pawan Kumar, Glory Katiyar, Muniza Mulla, Sanjay Sardessai   +4 more
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Adhesive small bowel obstruction – an update

Acute Medicine & Surgery, 2020
Small bowel obstruction (SBO) accounts for 12–16% of emergency surgical admissions and 20% of emergency surgical procedures. Even with the advent of laparoscopic surgery, intra‐abdominal adhesions remain a significant cause of SBO, accounting for 65% of ...
J. Tong, Pravin Lingam, V. G. Shelat
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Appendiceal Mucinous Tumor Presenting as Recurrent Bowel Obstruction

Diagnostics, 2022
Appendiceal mucinous tumors are rare, with variable malignant potential, and they are usually found incidentally. Clinical symptoms are nonspecific. Rarely, appendiceal mucinous neoplasm causes bowel obstruction and makes diagnosis more difficult.
Wei-Tang Lin, Yen-Hsiang Wang, Wei-Yu Chen, Wilson T. Lao   +3 more
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SEMS vs cSEMS in duodenal and small bowel obstruction : high risk of migration in the covered stent group [PDF]

, 2013
Aim: To compare clinical success and complications of uncovered self-expanding metal stents (SEMS) vs covered SEMS (cSEMS) in obstruction of the small bowel.
Albert, Jörg Gerhard, Bechstein, Wolf Otto, Friedrich-Rust, Mireen, Sarrazin, Christoph, Trojan, Jörg, Ulrich, Frank, Waidmann, Oliver, Zeuzem, Stefan   +7 more
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Risk of Bowel Obstruction in Patients with Mesenteric or Peritoneal Disease Receiving Peptide Receptor Radionuclide Therapy

Journal of Nuclear Medicine, 2020
Although radiation-induced mesenteritis or peritonitis can potentially exacerbate the risk of bowel obstruction, there are no data in the literature on the incidence of intestinal obstruction related to peptide receptor radionuclide therapy. Methods: The
J. Strosberg, T. Al-Toubah, E. Pelle, Johnna Smith, M. Haider, Tai Hutchinson, J. Fleming, G. El-Haddad   +7 more
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